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In Moscow, the police detained the leader of the progress party, Alexei Navalny, when he left the house to go to meet with supporters in Nizhny Novgorod. The politician reported this on Twitter.
“I was detained in the entrance. They were being taken somewhere“ for explanation, ”Navalny wrote.“ As usual. They detained, brought, guarded and no one knows anything. For what, I say, detained? - “Now we’ll figure it out.”
“The Kremlin perceives my meetings with voters as a huge threat and even an insult - after all, no one comes to meetings for meetings,” the leader of the party of progress notes. “They said for a long time that the opposition has no support in the regions, and now it is painful for them to look at our rallies.”
"Today, the employees of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the city of Moscow for repeated calls to participate in an inconsistent public event were detained by Alexei Navalny. The detainee was taken to the territorial police department for the proceedings," the press service of the capital's police head of the police said . "The police call not to succumb to provocation and refrain from participating in inconsistent shares."
Later, the Ministry of Internal Affairs reported that a protocol was drawn up on Navalny under part 8 of Article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (re -violation at rallies), which provides up to 30 days of arrest. At the same time, the politician himself at about 14:40 wrote that he did not see any protocol.
Meanwhile, in the morning in Nizhny Novgorod, in the presence of police and the Russian Guard, some people began to dismantle the scene and sound amplifying equipment installed on the site of the consistent rally-meeting with Navalny. Two activists of the local campaign headquarters were detained.
“In Nizhny Novgorod, the police attacked the site we equipped for a coordinated rally -meeting. Naturally banditry,” wrote Leonid Volkov, head of the campaign headquarters. “They came to the police department number 5, write a crime statement under Article 149 of the Criminal Code (obstructing the meeting. - Ed.), And they are not to support the children.”
Later, Volkov said that he had accepted the statement, but he himself was detained. On Volkova, a protocol was drawn up on the same part 8 of Article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses.
According to the ATS-Info, in the evening the coordinator of the Nizhny Novgorod headquarters of Navalny, Anna Petkoglo, was detained. She was taken to the police at the exit from the headquarters. The activist was delivered to the city police department No. 1. On Petkogol, a protocol was drawn up under Article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (violation of the procedure for a public event).
The security forces from 15:00 Moscow time cordoned off the headquarters of Navalny in Nizhny Novgorod, they ordered them to detain all the premises, wrote on Facebook by the press secretary of the Navalny campaign Ruslan Shavedinov.
Further, Volkov said that he was left for the night in the Police Department of Prioksky.
However, subsequently Volkov was taken from the police to the airport of Nizhny Novgorod and released there. The administrative case of the opposition will be considered on Monday in the Simonovsky District Court.
At about 21:00 Moscow time, all detainees were released in Nizhny Novgorod without drawing up protocols. In addition to Volkov and Petkoglo, the protocols were not drawn up for anyone.
Soon the police were released by Navalny, his case will also be considered on Monday.
At first, the authorities of Nizhny Novgorod agreed on the headquarters of the holding of the action, but then sent a notification of refusal to coordinate and planned a sporting event at the same place. Navalny declared such actions of the city hall illegal and called on the supporters to get together for a rally.
On Friday, it became known that meetings with Navalny were also refused to coordinate in Chelyabinsk, Krasnodar and Saratov. In Chelyabinsk, the city administration referred to the employment of all sites for rallies, the city hall of Krasnodar gave the same answer to the local headquarters, and in Saratov, officials motivated the refusal to incorrect the notification of the rally.
Navalny already held six rallies-meetings in Omsk, Murmansk, Yekaterinburg, Novosibirsk, Vladivostok and Khabarovsk. On October 7, a similar action is outlined in St. Petersburg. On Wednesday, Navalny said that his headquarters in St. Petersburg has long been trying to agree on a meeting, but officials of the city administration illegally refuse this . Therefore, it is decided to do as follows. The headquarters submits a notification on October 7 at 18 o’clock a meeting on the Marse Field. “If the administration again illegally refuses us, then I just come and spend my meeting on Palace Square. And after it - a peaceful procession,” the politician wrote.
On Thursday, Navalny said that the authorities of St. Petersburg did not respond within the prescribed time to the applicants of the action leader of the party, which means the actual coordination of the action. “The administration of St. Petersburg did not refuse our application. Under the law, it turns out that the rally -meeting on October 7 at 18:00 was agreed on the Marse Field,” Navalny wrote. “Today was the last day of their answer. They closed at 18:00. They didn’t answer anything, then everything is okay.”
At the same time, the Committee on the Legality of the Administration of St. Petersburg Fontanka said that the supporters of Navalny were refused a meeting on the Marse Field. "Activists made attempts not to get this answer, but this does not mean that it is not," the press service of the committee said.